I got an itch to attempt streaming. So… The point is, mostly, for me to play with CodePen’s 2.0 editor and just make stuff, learning about front-end development, web design, and CodePen features all together. I’ve used StreamYard to do it before, and I love how simple it is, but it feels a bit limiting, […]

My 7 year old strongly prefers to sleep with white noise playing. She’s got a little machine that does it on a timer. Whenever she sleeps somewhere else, if she can’t bring the machine, it’s best to have another solution. YouTube has those 10 hour long videos that do it which I can just play […]

The Am Dash is a clever idea. It’s a little typographic dash you can slip into text that sorta “proves” it’s human written, while looking kinda cool. This “proves” it’s human written because there is barely any text in the world that uses this so LLMs will (never?) generate text that has “am-” in it […]

Clayton Ramsey grades student assignments and gets papers that are just obviously ChatGPT output. I think any of us can spot it by now: awkward repetitive prose, heavy on bullet points with bold intro words, wordy, etc. There is nothing to be done about it. As an instructor, I am always saddened to read this. […]

I’m trying to do right by my old buddy Christopher Schmitt and his digital footprint. You might remember we made a thank-you site for him where people shared memories. That’s hosted on a provided Netlify account, and the code is on a public GitHub repo. Notably the site doesn’t use a custom domain name, which […]

Looks like they are getting the gang back together for a 20-year reunion. I’m going to try to attend, but no promises just yet. Mr. Richard Worth is throwing it in Dallas, TX. Who’s he gonna get?? The yayQuery gang? Yehuda? Jörn? González? Resig? No names just yet.

P. Martin Ortiz: Web apps can easily adapt to whatever device you’re on. A single responsive website can run on your desktop, phone, tablet, or even a VR headset. What’s even more, they can be updated on all of them simultaneously. That’s a level of flexibility that native apps can’t match. That’s why I feel […]

Chili’s is obviously the finest of all the full-service chain restaurants. They are crushing it right now. Imagine my pain living in Oregon where there are 0 (zero) (none) Chili’s. It’s very satisfying to hear their CEO say that they are going to start building new Chili’s again and literally that there are no Chili’s […]

It’s interesting to hear directly from Mozilla’s CEO Laura Chambers on the U.S. search engine monopoly case Google lost: Some of the remedies proposed in the case risk the future of our Firefox browser and Gecko browser engine—the last remaining non-Big Tech browser engine. Read: “If one of the remedies is Google is no longer […]

Fun rant from By Albert Burneko on how we just ain’t colonizing Mars, ever. The South Pole is around 2,800 meters above sea level, and like everywhere else on Earth around 44 million miles closer to the sun than any point on Mars. It sits deep down inside the nutritious atmosphere of a planet teeming with […]

My ol buddy Allan Branch, a decade or more ago, used to run a conference called LessConf which was about anything from “design to marketing to business”. There was a decent amount of web people that went. Allan ran some startups himself, as well as this conference, with Steve Bristol (RIP). Now he’s the dang […]

🎧 The Telepathy Tapes — A friend recommended I listen to this and I tore through it a few weeks ago. It’s about autistic people and how apparently literally all of them are telepathic. It’s a bit of a rollercoaster that goes: Anyway, “The Hill”, a thing in the show where autistic people go in […]